Woman And Modernity Provides What Previous Studies Of Salomé Have In Large Part Neglected To Offer―A Sustained Investigation Of The Literariness Of Salomé'S Texts And Of Salomé As A Significant Reader Of Modernity. Focusing On Key Encounters In Salomé'S Writings, Such As Her Exchanges With Nietzsche, Ibsen, Rilke, Freud, And Late Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class German Feminists Such As Dohm And Stucker, Martin Approaches Salomé'S Life And Work As A Series Of Strategic Negotiations Concerning The Place Of Women And The Meaning Of Femininity.